You should read The Stud Book by Monica Drake and then post in the LitReactor thread since I think the discussion is going to suck, and that makes me feel bad for her. She's local for you! You have to support her!

I finished reading The Master and Margarita. I was really enjoying it up until the big party about two thirds of the way through but after that it really seemed to drag out the ended, it makes me feel like I didn't really 'get it'.

Gone back to re-reading The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. I got about a third of the way through and everything that I remembered from the first time I read it (several years ago) has already happened, so I'm interested to see what the rest of it is about.

I read Megan Abbott The End of Everything but it wasn't that good. A bit overwritten. She repeats herself for emphasis way too much. Too much. Like that.

I'm reading that book by the drug dealer to all of the 90s Brit Pop bands. It's a bit much. It's exactly like what it would be like talking to a madferit ex drug addict and hearing all the anecdotes they've amassed one after the other, told the exact way they've told them for years. It's exhausting. It's a compliment in many ways that his voice is so realistic and excitable but it's to its detriment too. He could have reigned it in a bit and it would be better.
Haven't even got to the bit where he deals all the drugs to rock stars yet.

It does look like Sean Phillips but I'm really not sure. It was posted in my tumblr feed and I just loved the colors. If it is a Sean Phillips it would most likely be from Fatale. Most of his work from that comic has that noir/madmen look with the blue/green watercolor looking backsplashes.

I requested Solaris by the Stanislaw Lem this morning.
movie guy (MG) said I should go movie book movie.

Which movies though? Tarkovsky-book-Soderbergh?

A lot of people criticise the Soderbergh film but I really like it. It's supposed to be an alternate adaptation of the book, rather than a remake of the first film, but I'm not sure if that's really true.

Apparently Lem didn't like the Tarkovsky film because it focused too much on the relationships, rather than the ideas about science, humankind's place in the universe, incomprehensible intelligences, etc. Then the Soderbergh film focuses on the relationship even more and has less of the science/philosophy. The book contains a whole lot of weird stuff that didn't make it into either film, weird phenomena on the surface of Solaris, and stuff like that. It's pretty interesting.

I'm reading The Booked. Anthology, duh. I hope that you will, too, even if it's just for my own tale within, though other reasons are perfectly acceptable, too. But at least pretend it was for mine, willya?

I requested Solaris by the Stanislaw Lem this morning.
movie guy (MG) said I should go movie book movie.

Which movies though? Tarkovsky-book-Soderbergh?

A lot of people criticise the Soderbergh film but I really like it. It's supposed to be an alternate adaptation of the book, rather than a remake of the first film, but I'm not sure if that's really true.

Apparently Lem didn't like the Tarkovsky film because it focused too much on the relationships, rather than the ideas about science, humankind's place in the universe, incomprehensible intelligences, etc. Then the Soderbergh film focuses on the relationship even more and has less of the science/philosophy. The book contains a whole lot of weird stuff that didn't make it into either film, weird phenomena on the surface of Solaris, and stuff like that. It's pretty interesting.

I hadn't given much consideration to watching the Soderbergh version (really I didn't even know about it until MG said it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be). now you say it focuses even more on relationships, I feel better (not soo snobby) for skipping it all together.

thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share what I already wanted to say anyway but couldn't bring myself to do without context:
"Stanislaw Lem was scathing of the adaptation of his novel, and complained that he did not write it about people's 'erotic problems in space.'" -IMDb trivia

and yes i'm very excited about the weird surfaces of that alien planet. MG said it spontaneously erupts with structures. geometry.

Andersen explained the origins of the story in an incident he witnessed as a small child. By his report, his father was sent a piece of red silk by a rich lady customer, to make a pair of dancing slippers for her daughter. Using red leather along with the silk, he worked very carefully on the shoes, only to have the rich lady tell him they were trash. She said he had done nothing but spoil her silk. "In that case," he said, "I may as well spoil my leather too," and he cut up the shoes in front of her.
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I hadn't given much consideration to watching the Soderbergh version (really I didn't even know about it until MG said it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be). now you say it focuses even more on relationships, I feel better (not soo snobby) for skipping it all together.

thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share what I already wanted to say anyway but couldn't bring myself to do without context:
"Stanislaw Lem was scathing of the adaptation of his novel, and complained that he did not write it about people's 'erotic problems in space.'" -IMDb trivia

and yes i'm very excited about the weird surfaces of that alien planet. MG said it spontaneously erupts with structures. geometry.

and what is THIS?! also known as Solaris (1968)

so maybe Tarkovsky-Lem-Солярис. Телеспектакль ЦТ?

I wouldn't write off the Soderbergh version completely, it still has interesting stuff to say about memory and identity. And it's got some very nicely shot sequences and the music is pretty good (done by Cliff Martinez, guy who did Drive).

I've heard about the Russian TV movie but I haven't tried to watch it. I don't know if there are any subbed versions out there. I wonder if they tried to show the 'Symmetriads' somehow?

I haven't seen the Soderbergh version, but I remember a customer I had who had seen it and found it absolutely fantastic, couldn't stop talking about it. Generally he was more into braindead action flicks like Steven Seagal's or Chuck Norris', but that Solaris touched him somehow. So I'm guessing it can't be 100% bad.

I haven't seen the Soderbergh version, but I remember a customer I had who had seen it and found it absolutely fantastic, couldn't stop talking about it. Generally he was more into braindead action flicks like Steven Seagal's or Chuck Norris', but that Solaris touched him somehow. So I'm guessing it can't be 100% bad.

Amnesiac- ok. i'll watch it too. I still haven't taken the time to watch Drive yet. from what I read about it, i'm pretty sure it will leave me particularly sad.

franc tireur- have you seen Les Cousines? I think I can ask this question here because if I ever get to see the movie i'll have to read it, the captions.
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